Senate Backs Major Mental Health Plan With Narrow Vote
The Senate approved President Kennedy's mental health bill by one dissenting vote, authorizing 848 million over 10 years for state and university grants to build community centers, fund research on mental retardation, and expand care for the mentally retarded. The measure advances to the House, with leaders confident it will become law.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
House
Carl T. Curtis
R-Neb
House Commerce Committee
Sen
Lister Hill
D-Ala
Congress
Hill
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Carlson
Lawrence High to hold commencement with farewell notes
Wescoe Ken Whitenight and Col leen Wright head the event as Lawrence High School marks its final commencement led by Principal Wherry who retires this year. The LHS band and A Cappella Choir perform under Kassinger and Nelson with Nancy Maloney and Nancy Gallup as accompanists.
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Wescoe
Ken Whitenight
Colleen Wright
Lawrence High
Charles Kassinger
R. Wayne Nelson
Nancy Maloney
Nancy Gallup
Magr
George Towle
Wherry
H. P. Jones
E. J. Logedon
Two-Cent Hawaiian Stamp Brings $41,000 at Auction
A unique 1851 two-cent Hawaiian stamp set a new auction record, selling for $41,000 in New York. The stamp, used mainly by missionaries and never mailed, came from Maurice Burrus's Lausanne collection and was purchased by Raymond Weill of New Orleans.
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New York
Maurice Burrus
Lausanne
Raymond Weill
New Orleans
Inquiry Board Stymied by Loss of Sulphur Queen
A Coast Guard inquiry into the Marine Sulphur Queen disappearance ended after 37 days of hearings without a definite cause. No survivors or conclusive evidence exist. the board suspects the ship sank near the Straits of Florida.
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New York
Coast Guard Board of Inquiry
Florida
James D. Craik
Board of Inquiry
Straits of Florida
Beaumont
Tex
Norfolk
Albert S. Frevola
Race Not Reason For Club Action
Washington The National Press Club rejected C Sumner Stone editor of the Washington Afro American by a close vote after prolonged consideration The club said race was not the factor and that Stone did not meet admission standards despite pressure to admit him The club has several Negro members and cited professional standards over personal attacks in the paper The decision was announced by Robert C Young chairman of the membership committee The Washington Post News Service
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Washington
National Press Club
C. Sumner Stone
Robert C. Young
Stone
Young
Chicago Tribune
KU Expert Plans Three Year Study on Water Pollution
Dr. Raymond C. Loehr of Kansas University leads a three year project on upstream waste plant effluent affecting downstream water treatment. funded by USPHS with $17 500 first year, then $16 380 each for years two and three. work at KU Environmental Health Laboratories with assistants Kukar and Higgins.
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Kansas University
Raymond C. Loehr
Peters
U. S. Public Health Service
KU Center For Research In Science
USPHS
Loehr
KU Environmental Health Laboratories
Thomas J. Kukar
Western Springs, Ir
Georg ©. Higgins
Warrensburg, Me
Navy finds O rings from Thresher search on sea floor
Fifteen small metal O rings recovered from the ocean floor near the Thresher search area aboard the Conrad. The Thresher sank April 10 with 129 aboard 220 miles off Boston. Capt. Andrews attends Woods Hole conference as a naval inquiry examines new photos of the seabed.
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Norfolk
Val
U.S. Navy
Thresher
Atlantic Fleet Headquarters
Lamont Laboratory
Conrad Monday
Boston
Frank A. Andrews
Dupont
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Chief of Naval Operations
Adm
E. W. Grenfell
Atlantic Fleet
Naval Court of Inquiry
Portsmouth
N.H
Today In History Highlights From The Associated Press
On this date events span centuries including Drake’s destruction of St Augustine in 1596, the 1754 Battle of Great Meadows, a 1845 Quebec fire, the 1934 Dionne quintuplets birth, a 1945 Yokohama raid, Russia’s ten year ago East Germany move, a church merger five years ago, and last year’s NYSE drop of 21 billion dollars in a rough, concise roundup.
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St. Augustine
Fla
Sir Francis Drake
Great Meadows
Pennsylvania
Quebec
Callender
Ont
U.S
Yokohama
Japan
Russia
Soviet Control Commission
East Germany
United Presbyterian Church
United States of America
New York Stock Exchange
Faith One Of Famous Triplets The Nation’s Oldest
Framingham Massachusetts AP Faith Annie Faith McDonnell is the surviving member of the Faith Hope and Charity triplets once the nation’s oldest living trio. Charity Nora Charity Murphy died at Cushing Hospital following Hope by a year. The triplets were born in 1868 in North Brookfield to Daniel Coughlin and his wife, Irish natives. They gained fame as infants and received greetings from across the world.
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Framingham
Mass
Faith
Hope
Charity
Cushing Hospital
Annie Faith McDonnell
Nora Charity Murphy
Edward Murphy
Boston and Worcester
Ellen Hope Daniels
North Brookfield
Daniel Coughlin
Cork County
Ireland
Lawrence Chancellor Wescoe to Deliver LHS Commencement Address
KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe was released from KU Medical Center after a week for a pinched neck nerve and will give the Lawrence High School commencement address this evening. His daughter Barbara is among the graduates and he planned to remain home for several days. In a separate incident, police chased a skunk into a resident's garage but did not shoot it and the resident wished to keep it as a pet.
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Kansas University
W. Clarke Wescoe
KU Medical Center
Lawrence High School
LHS
Wescoe
Barbara
Congressional Group Restores Part Of Postal Budget Cut
A Senate House committee restored 40 million of the 92 million cut by the House in the Post Office Department budget. Sen. A Willis Robertson led the talks and said the extra money should assure adequate service for the new fiscal year starting July 1. Postmaster General J Edward Day warned Saturday mail could be halted and deliveries to new suburbs and office buildings could stop if the money was not restored.
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Washington
Senate
House
Post Office Department
A. Willis Robertson
D-Va
J. Edward Day
Post Office
Treasury Departments
Kennedy
Oklahoma Begins Study On Capital Punishment After Board Action
Oklahoma moves to study capital punishment after the Pardon and Parole Board recommended commuting the sentences of Richard Henry Dare and Gerald Pate to life. The Senate called for resignations of voting members. Gov. Ellman has not decided. Dave faces execution soon and Pate is scheduled for July after multiple stays.
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Oklahoma City
Jim Gungoll
Oklahoma
Gungoll
Pardon and Parole Board
Richard Henry Dare
Gerald Pate
State Senate
Messenger
Southern Baptist Convention of Oklahoma
Henry Ellman
Dave
Pate
Worker bees life cycle after honey gathering begins
Worker bees live only four to eight weeks after honey gathering starts. They buzz from flower to flower, gradually wearing their delicate thorax.
KU Corps names 1963 64 Peace Corps chairman at KU
John Fairhurst a Wichita junior becomes 1963 64 chairman of KU Peace Corps committee. Lawrence students Robert Crosier and Carole Clancy receive key posts as special events and news media chairmen. The group will run a speakers bureau and survey for the national Peace Corps office while promoting student interest.
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John Fairhurst
Wichita
Kansas University
KU Peace Corps
Lawrence
Robert Crosier
Clayton M. Crosier
la. St
Carole Clancy
J. B. Clancy
Hilltop Dr
Fairhurst
Peace Corps
Bee
National Peace Corps Office
Peace Corps Committee
Fred Slicker
Tulsa
Okla
Laurie Fitzgerald
Independence
Louisiana
James Murray
Leawood
Donna Hunt
Kansas City
Connie Kosfeld
East St. Louis
Ill
Hilltop
News Media
Accident Victim Good At Lawrence Hospital
Bruce Unfred 17 of Route 1 Lecompton was listed in good condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a one car accident on U S 40 near Big Springs. He was alone, lost control and struck a ditch causing a temporary concussion and back pain.
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Bruce Unfred
Lecompton
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Big Springs
Lawrence
U.S. 40
Rex Johnson
Unfred
Johnson
Missouri House Bans 3.2 Beer for Under 21
The Missouri House approved a bill banning possession of 3.2 beer by those under 21 and sent it to the governor. Senator William J. Cason frames it as halting a Jayhawker problem, noting minors cannot buy 3.2 beer in Missouri but can in Kansas and bring it back, causing accidents and lawlessness.
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Jefferson City
Missouri House
William J. Cason
D-Clinton
Missouri
Kansas
Cason
India as republic in the British Commonwealth
A note states that India is a republic within the British Commonwealth. It lists 16 states and six territories as part of its political divisions.
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India
Alumni Honorees Set Full Weekend Agenda At KU
Six Kansas University alumni chosen for the university’s highest honor plan a full schedule of events from Saturday to Monday. The 7 p.m. Monday commencement at Memorial Stadium will feature Chancellor Wescoe awarding the distinguished service citations to six honorees while two recipients cannot attend.
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Kansas University
Memorial Stadium
W. Clarke Wescoe
Ray Q. Brewster
John Ise
Charles L. Decker
U. S. Army
Hollis D. Hedberg
Hungerford
James A. Bell
Time Magazine
Bonn
Germany
Kansas
Gen. Decker
Lawrence
Irvin E. Youngberg
EU Endowment Association
Youngberg
Ise
George B. Smith
Raymond C. Moore
Moore
Hedberg
Ross E. McKinney
McKinney
Learned
Keith Fellmer
Weltmer
Shutz
Pope's Health Worsens As Surgeons Attend Pontiff
For a week Pope John XXIII lies in the apostolic palace with internal bleeding. Surgeons Gasbarrini and Valdoni attended the Pope around noon while Mazzoni remained at his bedside. Medical aides reported the hemorrhage temporarily controlled but attacks increasing.
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Apostolic Palace
Antonio Gasbarrini
Pietro Valdoni
Italy
Mazzoni
Gasbarrini
Papal
Valdoni
Vatican
Pope
Bipartisan Senate Push Builds for Feed Grain Bill
A bipartisan group of Senators introduces a new wheat and feed grains aid bill to replace existing programs and encourage acreage retirement. The measure, backed by Anderson Aiken Holland and Hickenlooper, envisions price supports, a cropland adjustment plan, and potential expansion to cotton.
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Washington
Senate Farm cc
Old Soil Bank
Sens
Clinton P. Anderson
Dn.m
Agri
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Senate Agriculture Committee
Spessard Holland
D-Fla
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Allen J. Eliender
D-La
Aiken
Anderson
Senate
House
Lister Hill
D-Ala
Farm Bureau Federation
Enthusiasm Said to Drive Growth in Free Enterprise
Edwin M. Clark, president of Southwestern Bell, urged business leaders to mobilize enthusiastic followers for free enterprise at the Missouri Public Expenditure Survey convention. He warned that support for government welfare reduces freedom and urged direct outreach beyond meetings to win public commitment. He described inactive citizens as the real danger and called for leadership to inspire daily engagement.
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Kansas City
Edwin M. Clark
Clark
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Missouri
Disaster Designation Sought for Eight Kansas Counties
Gov. John A. Anderson urged that eight western Kansas counties Wallace Stevens Meade Clark Comanche Barber Pratt Hodgeman be named disaster areas to allow grazing of foundation herds on land now in USDA Conservation Reserve contracts. G W Egbert noted drought damaged pastures and that 250000 acres and about 1000 landowners would benefit from releasing CRP acreage.
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Manhattan
Kan
John A. Anderson
Kansas
G. W. Egbert
Usda Disaster Committee
Egbert
Anderson
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Wallace
Stevens
Meade
Clark
Comanche
Barber
Pratt
Hodgeman
Sylvia districts reject merge proposal in state unification plan
Patrons of the Sylvia Grade School District voted 241 to 45 against merging with the Stafford School District. The districts have nearly the same boundaries and are too small to meet 1963 Legislature unification requirements. Voters oppose crossing the Reno County line in any future unification plans.
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Sylvia, Kan
Sylvia
Stafford
Reno County
Card of Thanks to Lawrence Memorial nurses and Dr Learned
The George E. Jackson Family expresses gratitude to the nurses on the 1st floor and Dr George Learned for their kindness and care during Mrs Alice Mitchell Jacksons stay at Lawrence Memorial Hospital They thank everyone for expressions of sympathy flowers and memorials in memory of their beloved wife and mother God bless you
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Dr. George
Mrs. Anderson
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Alice Mitchell Jackson
George E. Jackson
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